8421To James Madison from Robert W. Fox, 8 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Robert W. Fox. 8 March 1806, Falmouth. “Be pleased to receive herewith a list of the arrival in my district of Ships belonging to the United States of America [not found]; there have several called off this port for orders but not coming into port I have not their names &ca. “We have not lately had any Vessels belonging to the United States detained by the Cruizers sent into this port...
8422To James Madison from William Jarvis, 8 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From William Jarvis. 8 March 1806, Lisbon. “I had the pleasure to address you a private letter the 5 Ultimo by the Brig Maria, Captn Thomas Carew, for Alexandria, and took the liberty, by the same conveyance to send some trifles which I hope she did me the honor to receive. “I am exceedingly chagrined at the present posture of our affairs. The change of Ministry in England will no doubt be...
8423To James Madison from William Lee, 8 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From William Lee. 8 March 1806, Bordeaux. “I have the honor to enclose you an Imperial Decree imposing new duties on Sugar, Coffee, pepper Tea & Cocoa and his Imperial Majestys address on the opening of the Legislative body.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Bordeaux, vol. 2). 1 p.; docketed by Wagner. Enclosures not found.
8424To James Madison from William Lee, 8 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From William Lee. 8 March 1806, Bordeaux. “I have thought it my duty to transmit to you, the enclosed extracts, of the arrangements made with my partner, and Creditors, to shew to the Administration that I have surmounted all the difficulties, & distresses, which th[e] stoppage of my mercantile house occasioned. The closing of this painful affair, and the present embarrassments of some of my...
8425To James Madison from Robert Montgomery, 8 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Robert Montgomery. 8 March 1806, Alicante. “Not having any letters unanswered from Goverment I have only the honor of handing You herewith the list of Arrivals at this port and district from the first of July till first of January last [not found] to which you will please be refered, Exclusive of the twenty One Vessels till the date Above mentioned there near forty others Since Arrived...
8426To James Madison from John Armstrong, 9 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
The only step yet taken, on the reference mentioned in my last letter, is to suspend all decision upon the subject, untill a dispatch which is daily expected from Gen. Turreau, shall have been recieved. According to the color of this, we are, as I understand, to be invited to a similar submission, or to open the negociation anew under the eye of his M, or, that (deciding promptly &...
8427To James Madison from James Bowdoin, 9 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
I wrote to you on the 7th. & 27th. of dec. & on the 17th. Ultimo, & still continue without your favours: I am now more particularly to acquaint you, that my worthy & highly esteemed friend, George Erving Esq. of London, father of George W. Erving Esqr. chargé d’affaires of the U.S. near the Court of his catholic majesty, died on the 18th. of Jan. last, and that Mr. Erving recd. the melancholy...
8428To James Madison from John B. Prevost, 10 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
Mrs. Prevost wrote to you during the month of june last communicating my indisposition at that time together with her fears as to the consequences which might then be anticipated by the dissolution of the courts of justice. We have received no answer to that letter—it has probably shared the fate of many others and is now Suspended on some tree in the wilderness. Permit me therefore again to...
8429From James Madison to Thomas Eddy, 10 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Thomas Eddy. 10 March 1806, Department of State. “If you have not taken measures to include your claim on the French Government under the Louisiana Convention, it is too late. Unless you made Mr. Erving your private Agent, it was by no instruction from the Executive that he retained the commissions. But it will easily be conceived, that in some cases descrimination between the power of...
8430To James Madison from John Mitchell, 10 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John Mitchell. 10 March 1806, Paris. “Since I had the Honor to Acknoledge the receit of your Letter covering Me a New Commission for the vice Agency at Havre, Nothing has passed at that port worthy of Notice, the Port continues to be blockaded by the British, and the Town abandon’d by the former Inhabitants. “I now beg leave to Notice to you a Decree of the 24 feby. imposeing a Duty of...